T. M. v. University of Md. Medical System Corporation · ¶2
Held: The Rooker-Feldman doctrine bars federal district court jurisdiction over cases brought by state-court losers complaining of injuries caused by state-court judgments rendered before the district court proceedings commenced and seeking district court review and rejection of those judgments, regardless of whether the state-court judgment remains subject to further review in state appellate proceedings. Pp. 5– 18. (a) Federal district courts generally lack “any power to review directly cases from state courts.” Atlantic Coast Line R. Co. v. Locomo tive Engineers, 398 U. S. 281, 286. The Supreme Court is the only federal court with appellate jurisdiction to review state-court judgments, and that jurisdiction extends only to “[f]inal judgments or decrees rendered by the highest court of a State in which a decision could be had,” 28 U. S. C. §1257(a). In Rooker v. Fidelity Trust Co.,…Read in context ›
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